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How many copies did Murder Miners sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 357k–580k
$293k–$789k after Steam's cut $533k–$1.2M before the cut
from 6k reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Murder Miners out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Murder Miners's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 33k–408k
best case 1.3M (Timberborn)
Games like Murder Miners

The middle of these games

≈ 33k–408k copies

≈ $145k–$6.4M after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is FPS (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Timberborn at ≈ 1.0M–1.7M copies, ≈ $9.8M–$26.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 74 to 38k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on FPS (4 of 8) and Voxel (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with City Builder + Voxel, priced around $35.
The era
4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.
How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 38 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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